cloud

Last week there was an interesting article in the New York Times by Kevin J. O’Brian about the challenges to rolling out the cloud in Europe, and how it is happening despite them. The biggest issue is that data privacy laws severely restrict transferring people’s personal information outside of the 27 countries that form the European Union. This…

IBM recently released its second-quarter earnings report, citing impressive gains (Q2 revenues rose 12 percent to $26.7B). While the hardware side of IBM’s business is undoubtedly important, it’s the company’s ability to pivot to emerging market trends, especially the cloud, that had analyst James Kelleher of Argus Research bullish about the…

Interesting post from on the cloud downtime dilemma from Software Advice. It cites a Radicati Group study, which found that among popular on-premise email systems, there was an average of 30-60 minutes of unscheduled downtime per month, in addition to the 36-90 minutes of scheduled downtime – so between 66-120 minutes of total downtime per month…